Jesus Christ, Britain. 🤦‍♂️

Opens twitter

*Lots of people that don't live in London complaining about some weird imaginary version of London

Closes twitter

Significantly lower voter turnout would be pretty damning evidence of the need for ID.

Went to vote. Showed them my ID and they gave me the ballot papers. Everyone cheered and a lad on crutches fell over from stomping his crutch so much. The whole street sang Rule Brittania, the chimney sweeps joined in and danced across the roofs.

Fintwit in disbelief.

Same, but with Bluey.

Market sentiment check

Economic theory of the past 100 years has been based on More.

More people.
Build more.
Sell more.
More customers.
More teachers.
More doctors.

As populations shrink, economic theory, indicators, and government policy need to switch to doing better with less.

So it seems the manager announcing he's leaving in the middle of the season does matter.

What is going on at KPMG?

We need to cut rates so people can afford chocolate biscuits.

2.6m cars registered in London - ULEZ might be a big issue.

My favourite thing about Canadian true-crime stories is they always say 'we don't get a lot of homocides' or 'organised crime is completely unheard of here'. Just keep plugging that low-crime narrative 🤣

Met a mate who works for a building society. Just remortgaged with their employer at a staff rate of 1%, compared to 5.6% through a broker. Has to be one of the best employee benefits going right now!

Amazing work!

U wot m8

By calling for, much needed, change, Draghi has highlighted all of the major problems of the EU. Lack of cooperation, coherence and ambition.

Very interesting speech.

geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/16/…

Refinitiv have sent me an invoice for minus £30k. Presume this means they are refunding me - what a business!